ravin

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Well, that was before you tuck to the fightin'; but I'm ravin'.

From The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

For the true scorpion whips are those of the nation's pleasant vices, which are to it as St. John's locusts—crown on the head, ravin in the mouth, and sting in the tail.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

Four Winds Harbor was beginning to be a thing of dream and glamour and enchantment—a spellbound haven where no tempest might ever ravin.

From Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Ae nicht whan the win' gaed ravin aboot,   And the winnocks war speckled wi' faem, Frae room to room she strayt in and oot,   And she spied her pearly kaim.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

This sea of silver, "hushed and halcyon," or this sea of wrath and ravin, wild as Judgment Day.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard